Why do so many bodybuilders and strippers tattoo their bodies?

Is it because they want to draw more attention to their bodies with pictures and designs, or is it because they secretly hate their bodies and want to mar them with ugly pictures and designs?
I never get the psychoogy between multiple tattoos. (I'm not talking about just one or two tattoos here--I'm talking about lots of them. If you want to bitch about people with one or two tattoos, please find another thread.)

Tatoos are a trend. They want to follow along with the "in" group. Unfortunately, some bodybuilders have ruined the beauty of their bodies with tatoos. Luckily for me, the bodybuilders that I really like don't get tatoos like Stefan Havlik, David Hoffmann, Doug Miller, Jeff Rodriguez, Lajos Lenard, Helmut Strebl, Jeff Willet, Lucas Di Santi etc.

A lot of bodybuilders and strippers were sexually and/or physically abused as children, which means they tend to have low self esteem. There's a proven correlation between tattoos and an individual's self image.

I don't know or care why, I just wish they would stop already. Big scrawling tattoos across chests and arms are hideous, especially ones with letters in big fancy fonts. UGH.

Those faded, wrinkled, saggings tatts will be some sight when these people are sitting in a wheelchair at the nursing home.

Body Graffiti. It is the same as spray painting a bridge. The lower classes gravitate to tattoos. They are a badge of your lower social class roots.

R6, I have no tattoos but I'm thinking of getting one when I get old. The splash of color will detract from the fact that my deflated nipples are bumping against my ankles.

It's because they're low-class types.
Bodybuilding, stripping and porn all attract trashy, proletarian people.
None of those subjects attract a lot of educated, monied types as a profession or interest worth devoting a lot of time to.

Because both bodybuilders and strippers think that their bodies are the only thing about them that other people notice. If they want to tell the world something, they have to write it directly on the body.

I know someone who refused to adopt a stray cat in his neighborhood because he doesn't like "commitments", but he has 20+ large tattoos all over his body. I suggested to him that getting a tattoo was a "commitment" but he waved me off.
Different kind of commitment, I guess...

R2 *Rolls eyes*

What an original idea for a thread, OP. Go, pearl clutchers, go!

I'm sure that Marie Antoinette @R9 has no issues with hiring the same grungy tatooed proles for sexual services.

it is trashy

[quote]I'm sure that Marie Antoinette @[R9] has no issues with hiring the same grungy tatooed proles for sexual services.
"Let them eat cock!"

Tattoos are generally ugly.
More or them is even worse.
It is akin to grafitti on a public structure- does not belong there, although some of it can be interesting.
And of course to each his/her own.
The shaved, trimmed, tatted, tanned look to me is, well, gross. Fit, neat and clean works best for me.

A lot of Queens and up tight conservative homo's who were sexually and/or physically abused as children, which means they tend to have low self esteem. There's a proven correlation between people who judge people with tattoos and an individual's self image.

R19, I don't judge them, but I tend to look past them in terms of physical beauty or attraction. I offered my opinion above because it addresses the content of this thread!

R18

R19 must have lots of tattoos and is very defensive.

Why would someone desecrate their body?

I agree that it's a sign of being lower class.

OP, because they are followers of stupid fads.

It's a sign of emotional problems, and the desperate need for attention. It's quite pathetic, actually.

[quote]Those faded, wrinkled, saggings tatts will be some sight when these people are sitting in a wheelchair at the nursing home.
You mean their bodies would be beautiful and people would want to look at their aged wrinkled flesh if they just didn't have the tattoos?

[quote]A lot of Queens and up tight conservative homo's who were sexually and/or physically abused as children, which means they tend to have low self esteem. There's a proven correlation between people who judge people with tattoos and an individual's self image.
Ah, no. I wasn't abused, I just know that tattoos look like shit on people.

They say that once you get a tattoo, you will have the urge to get many tattoos. And, so the mess begins!

It immediately designates you as dumb and lower class.

why would people want to permanently trash their bods?

Agreed...At my gym there is an individual who has the most amazing body (and he works hard for it) BUT he has all these random tattoos all over his body which great diminishes the work he's done...
I see this on Tumblr all the time: beautiful models with great bodies and horrible tattoos
Thanks for the thread...I have been griping about this for a week or so! LOL

As long as they have bubble butts and big uncut cocks, I don't care what they tattoo themselves with.

Honest%20Queen

Why do so many lesbians have tattoos?

R11, different type of commitment. A cat involves taking care of a living thing.
Personally, not liking commitments is part of why I don't have a tattoo or a pet. But I would get a tattoo before I would get a pet.

[quote]It's a sign of emotional problems, and the desperate need for attention. It's quite pathetic, actually.
I know this one guy who I think is secretly gay, and he has tattoo's ALL over his body - his neck, chest, back, hips and on one leg. I would say 40% of his body is covered. And I've always wondered if maybe he does all this because he's in the closet and can't cope with being gay, so he does this as a distraction.

Why do so make chefs and cooks have tats?

Tattoos from parlour books are the worst. Copying someone else's tattoo is bad. Girls with visible tats are big time trash.
I have 1. Thought about and worked on it for years before making it permanent. Totally original, and regularly complimented during summer months, particularly by tattoo haters! The guy that did Ben Harper's arm is the same guy I collaborated with, tho mine is post-modern maori art in comparison.
There's too many horrible and uninspired tats around, at least 90% from what I see. I don't blame the backlash.

David Beckham comes to mind. All those god awful tattoos. Ugh.
But i still definitely would.

Oh. God, the aunties and snobs are having a high old time here. I'd never get a tattoo, because I don't care for the look, but judging people based on them is a form of insecurity.

R36, because male chefs and cooks have always been essentially low class and white trash. It is only with obese America's obscene rise in food porn that they have become somewhat respectable.

We need more cleancut door next door buff dudes. Trashy is not hot.

"I'm not talking about just one or two tattoos here--I'm talking about lots of them. If you want to bitch about people with one or two tattoos, please find another thread."
I'm not going to "bitch about people with one or two tattoos," but I do wonder why you make such a huge distinction between "one or two" tattoos and "lots" of tattoos. Seems weird to me. Aside from everything else, doesn't the size and prominence of the tattoos matter?

"A lot of bodybuilders and strippers were sexually and/or physically abused as children, which means they tend to have low self esteem"
Funny how people make comments like this without having the evidence to back them up. People used to claim that strippers and prostitutes were all "sexually abused" but statistics show that they are not more likely to have been abused than anyone else. It's weird how some people will cling to sexual abuse as an explanation for everything...

R7, R9 = Hopelessly middle class.

"...conservative homo's who were sexually and/or physically abused..."
"I know this one guy who I think is secretly gay, and he has tattoo's ALL over his body."
People who get tattoos are pathetic, but just as pathetic -- in a different way -- are people who are too fucking stupid to know the difference between the plural and possessive forms of a word.
Holy Christ, folks! This is basic stuff any third grader should know. Really not that difficult.
And P.S., it's "whom I think," not "who I think."

Actually, r47, in the poster's sentence, the clause that determines the case is "who is secretly gay," so he had it right.
Making the plurals of homo and tattoo with an apostrophe S is wrong, however.

Geez, some of you old dogs never get tired of gnawing on this bone. There hardly a thread on DL where you Marys aren't having your daily Mary Meltdown about tattoos.
I have no tattoos. I'm a clean-cut professional looking guy and think a tattoo would look really out of place on me. But there are soooooo vastly many hot guys out there with tattoos, they don't bother me. If I'm just looking at the guy and don't intend to marry him, why do I care what "class" he is or if he's got tattoos? If he's hot, he's hot.
Some are bad, some detract, but the fainting spells some of you go into at the very thought or sight of tattoos is just ridiculous.

[quote]I do wonder why you make such a huge distinction between "one or two" tattoos and "lots" of tattoos. Seems weird to me.
It doesn't seem weird at all to me.
It's like the difference between people with one or two piercings versus the people with multiple piercings. The former seems pretty acceptable; the second seems extreme.

So guys like lee priest dorian yates and rich pina are idiots the only difference between tattooed body builders and non tattooed body builders is the ones with tats dont care if your not

Bobybuilders are into ugly...why else would they pervert their bodies the way they do?